Candy Moulton

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

School students will have an opportunity to see In Pursuit of a Dream at the American Theater in Casper, Wyoming on May 20. There will be two showings, one at 9 a.m. and another at 12:30 p.m. To reserve a seat for your student (or class), contact Holly Turner at the National Historic Trails Interpretive Center Foundation.

On Saturday, May 21, beginning at 10:30 a.m. the film will screen for the general public, also at the American Theater. All showings are free. We will have copies of the DVD for sale. Quackgrass Sally and I will be present for the the showings along with some members of the cast.

Monday, March 21, 2011

I'll be on the road this week to Cedar City, Utah, for a showing of In Pursuit of a Dream, the film I created with Boston Productions for the Oregon-California Trails Association. Anyone in the vicinity is invited to attend the showing at Sharwan Smith Center, Southern Utah University, 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 23. Admission is $5 for adults; students admitted free. Quackgrass Sally will be there to join me in a Q&A following the film.

For those who don't know, the documentary follows a group of 24 young people who come from Boston, Denver, Sacramento, Texas, Wyoming, and Oregon to follow the Oregon Trail. They arrive in modern day, and then go back to the trail era (1843-1869) as they learn what it was like for the emigrants.

On Thursday and Friday morning, I'll be attending the National Board meeting of the Oregon-California Trails Association. Friday afternoon through Sunday a symposium will be held at the Chrystal Inn & Suites in Cedar City. It will include presentations on the Old Spanish Trail, travel on the trail through southern Utah to California, Mountain Meadows, and other trail sites in the area.

There is a tour along the Old Spanish Trail on Saturday, March 26.

It is not too late to attend. Visit www.octa-trails.org for more info.

Sunday, March 13, 2011

It has been a while since I've blogged....but hey, I have nothing to do between midnight and 2 a.m. so I'm going to give this a whirl again.

If you follow me you never know where you might go, who you might meet, what you might do.

I intend to take you along on some of my road trips across the West, introduce you to some of my friends and authors, give you an inside look at editing the Western Writers of America Roundup Magazine, or researching my next book or media topic.

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Wyoming native Candy Moulton has written thirteen Western history books, co-edited a collection of short fiction and an encyclopedia and written, produced, and been a reenactor in several documentary films. She won a Spur Award from Western Writers of America in 2006 for her biography, Chief Joseph: Guardian of the People. She won another Spur in 2010 for In Pursuit of a Dream, the documentary film she wrote and produced with Boston Productions Inc (BPI) for the Oregon-California Trails Association.
Moulton’s newest books are Forts, Fights & Frontier Sites: Wyoming’s Historic Places, published by High Plains Press, and Valentine T. McGillycuddy: Army Surgeon, Agent to the Sioux, published by the Arthur H. Clark Co. (June 2011). Also forthcoming this summer is the two-volume The Settlement of America: Encyclopedia of Westward Expansion from Jamestown to the Closing of the Frontier, which she co-edited with James Crutchfield and Terry Del Bene.
Candy is a magazine editor, rancher's wife, and road warrior.